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The phone blok idea isn't bad, it's just coming at the wrong time. Modularity introduces overhead into an industry, but it also forces competition and is thus better in cases where an end product with that overhead can remotely compete with a product that lacks modularity. We're not there with smartphones yet, mainly b...
I used to think the same way, coming from a background in dynamic languages (Python FTW), I considered Java a big slow bloated enterprise behemoth. It chews up lots of memory, takes ages to start up, and desktop applications using 'Swing' feel slow and laggy. Then I actually started using it in real world production ...
Shit like that does happen though. I am an avid ebay shopper and seller. I recently had this happen: I bought a package. I tracked the package online. The package showed as delivered. So when I got home I checked the mail. I live in an apartment and all mail is in a locked mailbox, if its to big they leave you a...
The fbi don't have jurisdiction anywhere outside the USA. If this guy is an American, fine... But if not, all the fbi can do is petition and lean on the authorities of his host country for some sort of action.
No I guess you're right. Not 100% guarantee, but I assure you its upwards of 95%. There are two types of recording scenarios. "Quality" and "Compliance". There are very few places out there that do selective recording for quality. And I'd 95% guarantee PayPal isnt one of them. Expecially when it comes to calls wh...
I know it costs more, but you should not rely on USPS Delivery Confirmation as it is not a true proof of delivery. Only Express mail packages have this. If you had used FedEx or UPS you would have won the case, many times even without a signature. Source: I work for an eBay seller and deal with these cases on a weekl...
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simple answer. voip recording cost for our environment somewhere in the mid 80k, if we were to start switching all the phones to voip phones now you can add 12k, average $320 a phone, plus recording license, plus 1 time activation since it isn't avaya the money whore. Works out to be $550 a phone with a $80 annual fee ...
The easy answer is Yes. I dont have many specific details about PayPal's setup. However if its anything like any other banking-ish institutions I can make some assumptions. My guess is that they're Voip. I havent been to a big install in years that still uses digital phones. So I'm guessing either Avaya or Cisco. ...
My point is that stopping one person when there is such a glaring issue should be a secondary goal. Obviously it should be pursued but it is definitely not more important. There is a reason that he felt so secure in the brazenness with which he went about this, he is likely too far away for "justice" and it would cost ...
Censorship drives innovation. e.g. When Apple banned flash (all those many years ago) porn sites started utilizing what HTML5 functionality that was available to deliver their content to those flashless platforms. This focused the browser community to implement HTML5/CSS3 etc. as fast as possible and the W3C to ensur...
preface: I did not read the article I don't know if the intent was straight up censorship, but I do know that my sister was able to access my chromecast from across the house on her iphone without my consent. Privacy was likely the concern before censorship especially if you consider that some tvs will automatically sw...
The attacker either sits on the same network as you, if the base station doesn't have access point isolation turned on, and uses ARP spoofing to cause your machine to think the attacker is the router, or he listens to your device's probe requests, spoofs the network, gets close to you so his signal is stronger, and the...
I have recently read the entire constitution, technically privacy really isn't a right that the United States government guarantees its citizens. The US Government is a government of enumerated powers only do the things that it is granted to do by the Constitution. The only reason that the Bill of Rights was writte...
I have been saying this for awhile but in addition to reduced accidents, you will have many other massive factors to take into account Fewer accidents, there goes half the insurance industry and a chunk of healthcare More fuel efficiency since robo cars could, in theory never have to stop while driving, 4 robo ca...
I live in a very rural area of Washington State and I can tell you without a doubt that computers and sensors could not drive on roads safely and accurately during the winter. White out conditions, icy roadways, animals, no road markers, and a plethora of other hazards and uncontrollable factors would amount to a compu...
Why would the GNP suffer a major hit if we made the first/best/most popular/successful driverless cars? The US is poised to have one of the best infrastructures in the world for it. Large space, large number of gridded cities, expansive + well maintained highway system, relatively not-dense population based on land m...
I've always had the idea to implement a "social media" for self-driving cars as soon as they become pretty much the only type of car on the road. It would combine the schedules of its drivers and interact with global, real time GPS to find the fastest route to their destination. It would also have the ability to have l...
Self driving cars will happen but drivers will always have to be in the vehicle alert. I was debating a friend about this a few weeks ago and currently for all driverless vehicles on the road there is a requirement that a person must be able to intervene at all times. So if there is any accident in a "driverless" c...
Fewer accidents, there goes half the insurance industry and a chunk of healthcare No industry is immune to technological progress. Healthcare providers would welcome the decreased workload I think as well. Less funding would be required as well. My guess is that there will still be car accident insurance may be gone,...
i responded a little more indepth in another comment. here's a link:
The figure was pulled from an article that pulled from an article that pulled from a report released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration That report stated: > The total includes $277 billion in economic costs – nearly $900 for each person living in the USA – and $594 billion in societal harm from th...
This is extremely impractical anywhere other than within a single city. Unless you can map and pre-render said data on a regular basis for a much larger area. If each networked vehicle has sensors and can contribute to this database, it isn't impossible. Each vehicle not only benefits from the digital maps they share...
Someone just slipped on a slippery slope. Are you even paying attention? You can still drive if you want. That's what everyone is saying. That's the message that is constantly being re-said over and over again in this thread, in various articles about the subject, and from the pioneers in the self driving car industr...
I'm sure that's what people said about the livery industry when automobiles were invented to begin with. Horses need to eat. Horses need to be cleaned up after. Saddles. Carriages. Accessories. Or scribes, when the typewriter was invented. Driverless cars are still going to need to be fixed. Body shops are go...
I really don't think anyone here understands how insurance companies work. When an insurance company pays a claim, that's money going the wrong way. Safer cars means fewer accidents, fewer accidents means fewer claims to pay, fewer claims = more money for insurance companies. And seeing as how nothing in this world is ...
Posts that get upvoted are the ones that are the most readable and relatable. Because there is so much hate for Comcast, posts about the company draw redditors who may otherwise not have visited the subreddit. This means people who are not as interested in a technical post will be casting their votes for the post that ...
I think we all agree that Snapchat doesn't prevent abuse by a malicious communication partner; If something's displayed on your partner's screen, then he/she can take a picture of it. The only way Snapchat can be useful (yes, it can), is if you trust your partner at the moment . In that case, Snapchat protects y...
I do see where you're coming from, don't get me wrong. I really do try to see it from these peoples point of view, but it's very hard. It's hard for me to think that I would ever be taken advantage of in this way, or that being taken advantage of in this way is actually "being taken advantage of." I definitely wouldn...
there's always existed this idea that, "once on the internet; forever on the internet" Yes, I agree with you and users need to take responsibility for what they post, but that doesn't absolve the service provider from their responsibility of keeping the data secure. Just because I could care less if a video of my dog...
So? That is not their fault... I don't even like SnapChat but they are trying to sell you on their app and when have you ever met a salesman who will sell you the weakness first? If I sell TVs and someone tells me they want a TV that meets certain criteria I will sell the TV on those criteria. I am not going to start...
From an advertiser-perspective this could actually be good for consumers. If mobile traffic keeps increasing like it does but cross-device tracking remains as poor as it is chances are websites will go out of business because advertisers will keep focusing on the decreasing desktop traffic that will be unsustainable fo...
More like welcome to the land of the dumb and overly easy to manipulate with clickbait articles. Simple things like "id" is being misconstrued in half the comments much less half of what this can even be used for. Much less what a header or cookie is.
So, I believe that All of us cooperating , open source is going to eventually make that which holds us back from fullfilling each of our unique volitions, IRRELEVANT. Within our daily lives, we will step into a more authetic praxis with regards to our processes of meeting ALL of our basic collective human-needs. T...
Little story here. Last March break for spring break a whole bunch of us from school went to Cayo Coco for a week of drunk in the sun fun. We had a day excursion that took us into a small village and see one of the schools. We played with the kids and chatted them up. This one little boy and I got talking and he s...
This is one of the many problems of user perception. Games can't get these incredible(but real) performance gains if they're just patched to be "DirectX 12 ready". Expect new games that will use the Unreal Engine 4, the Nitrous Engine, Unity, CryEngine - and a couple others that I can't remember - to feature much more ...
That is the problem; but not in the snarky way you phrase it. With a lot of drivers, you can spread the costs over a lot of premiums. This means that every individual premium can be lower. If there are fewer cars to insure, but the same or more people on the road, then you have: more people to get injured ...
If you look at the voting patterns of a typical American Republican voter, especially the older generation, you can only come to one conclusion. And that's their politics are driven not by a desire to have a better outcome for themselves and everyone else; it's to make sure that others that they deem unworthy do not ha...
Fully wipe your system using fastboot from an external PC prior to flashing -Disable default performance options (compcache and surface dithering) -Replace shitty ADWLauncher with the default launcher or LauncherPro (rename the apk to Launcher.apk and push it to the /system directory for even better speed) -Use adb to ...
Most movies these days suck ass. Why would anyone risk years in jail or retarted fines for downloading pirated movies? Doing so is lieterally not worth it. So what if the studios want to make sure that Pirates don't into their piece of the pie. Can anyone honestly say that downloading a pirated movie/TV show is worth ...
802.11s]( is still draft and I have no idea how long it will take to finalize, but there is progress being made to get support into [Linux]( and [FreeBSD]( This stuff looks so fucking awesome, I can hardly wait. /nerdgasm edit:
Erik Naggum had a very interesting comment about what too long a period of growth does to an industry. As far as I can recall the
There is a lot of politics behind the scenes with regards to foxconn, what the owner says in public, and China. China frequently uses the owner of foxconn as a voice box. For example, before the last Taiwanese presidential election, the CEO of foxconn heavily criticized the fact that a lot of his fellow manufactoring...
Perhaps a story of a similar event would help you get the ball rolling on getting your rightfully deserved prize. Years ago me and my wife went into a store called Media Play (i don't think they are around anymore), and they were having a competition on the Nintendo 64 playing the game Tetris (or so we thought). The...
So as a proud owner of a Samsung galaxy s2 and with my best friend sporting the Note, we're going to go hit the Windows challenge, possibly filming one another's endeavors discreetly. So far the challenges I've been able to discover are as follows (and here's how I intend on winning them): Send the same friend a ...
I too was scammed by them a few weeks ago. The prize: $100 Gift Card My Phone: Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Task: Take Picture of Sign and Upload to Facebook. They had me connect to their store wifi which took some time to get an IP. They counted down and I took the photo and put the phone down on the table as it was upl...
The fact that you dont keep a lock screen on your phone is crazy. You were obviously scamming the test, and looking for loopholes to exploit. Without a lockscreen your phone is libel to do all sorts of things in your pocket or bag that you would never want happening. Everyone has a lock screen enabled and Microsoft...
Scandinavia is a geographical location, namely the Scandinavian penisula. So technically only Sweden and Norway are "Scandinavian" countries. A more sensible categorization would be linguistic, in which case Finns fall out aswell, since Finnish is fenno-ugric language, and not Scandinavian.
Semi-related to this: my home country Norway, and particularly the capitol Oslo, have gained recognition for a high density of quality coffee spots. Some of the grocers and baristas have developed a particular style of roasting the beans which differ significantly from French and Italian roast. You can read a little ...
Yes, TrueCrypt. The best part is creating "Hidden Volumes", in case you are forced to type in a password. I encrypted my entire 1.5 TB external hard drive, and made two partitions. When it is plugged into my PC, it shows the entire drive as full, and you cannot access anything (You must mount it with TrueCrypt, other...
Yes, the hardest reason for people to read your mail is, in fact, the laws. The laws that say you can't open someone's mail without specific reasons -- and the fact that if the mail is indeed opened, someone within the chain of the communication will be aware that it was intercepted/viewed. But it's that last point whi...
They are not being extradited. They are facing charges in the UK and will go to a UK prison. Being raped in the ass is rare in UK prisons, as it should be. It's considered, you know, gay. And usually tough criminals don't like gays. You could be the biggest toughest criminal in a UK prison, one day decide to rape a m...
I was working at CompUSA when we did a 'virus scan' - as we called it - on a customer's computer. Dozens upon dozens, hundreds perhaps, of real deal photos of child pornography came up. There was no question that these were young children engaged in sex acts with adults and other minors. The floor of the tech shop tu...
Best case scenario, since 30k/yr isn't much (and will be even less over time) is to get whatever job you feel like, let's say an exceptional slacker job that pays 20k/yr, or 17k after tax(simplified). You pull 13k out to supplement your income to 30k. Including capital gains taxes, your nest egg is a little over 600...
I'm lazy, and that was a long article. Can someone give me a
For writing an article about Reddit, they really have no idea what
Correct, but you also pay taxes on that gain. I enjoy solving problems like this, so here's something that may help you out: >If you're looking to live off a stream of passive income and know how much money you can get by on in after tax dollars today , this equation will tell you how much principle you'll need: ...
That's an interesting point, and there's actually an enormous risk there. You see, the more that people fear the loss of privacy, the more likely they are to want to use a VPN, and they'll pay good money for it. The NSA could set up companies to provide VPN, but also spy on everything passing through them. Then, the NS...
Technologically Ahead of time they setup monitoring systems in the backbones of the telecom companies. When you place a call or initiate communications with a server on the internet, it has to go through the telecoms' backbones on route to its destination. Due to the fact there isn't encryption on telephone calls and...
i think that's the point. its the kind of fear the government wants to instill into you, to allow yourself to be taxed and spied on and make it seem like they will accomplish better tighter security on you in the future. they want you to think there are terrorists and they want you to think the government should be loo...
I disagree with so much in this article, it's insane. I don't think they know what they're talking about. Edit: I personally think wearables were really cool this year. A few of them were overhyped (Samsung Galaxy Gear?). I'm not sure if Glass counts because it's not publicly ready yet, but for an early product, ...
The MIT list is full of "could potentially" technologies. The net result is a list of 4 real-world developments: Deep learning. Temporary social media. Smart watches. Big data from cheap phones. Of those four, I only find deep learning and smart watches interesting. Both require further development. Dee...
No its nothing new, since streaming is nothing new in general. But in Sweden the ATV is 4 times the price, which makes a pretty considerable difference if you only want to stream. I own the first generation but it's pretty worthless in Sweden, since all the apps are American and does not work here except for YouTube...
I remember installing an HP NIC adapter card (jet card?) into the back of a Laserjet IV or V back in the late 90's and setting up the static IP through the mono-chromatic LCD on the top of the printer. Now all printers are standard with wifi.
Fax machines suck. They take forever to handshake, and when someone got your fax machine phone number to send spam to, it cost the machine owner a good amount of coin in toner. And god forbid, if you have to work with a company that only accepts faxes. The destination fax machine might not work or have quality issues...
You are right, there is a lot of good quality content, but remember, to get ALL of this content you need (this is loosely what the cable company calls their subscription packages): Basic Cable tier Upraded Cable Tier Digita Cable Tier HBO + Showtime Premium Sports and Information Package Variety Package An oar to pad...
When I signed up with Shaw, I said, "I only want internet. What deals do you have right now?" They gave me second tier internet (can't remember the speed) at about $35/month for two years, then it bumps to $65. That two years is nearly up, so I'll be calling them in the near future to either extend that service at t...
Wishful thinking. Why do you think that the cable companies just destroyed net neutrality? Because in the near future, your Internet will be billed exactly like cable.
If you get a printer that costs more than 150 dollars it doesnt break and fuck up constantly. People only have that impression of printer because they buy the shit 50-150 dollar printers. I have a business class Brother laserjet that I paid around 400 dollars for 10 years ago, the laser toner is still at over 90% full,...
If two people have faxes, and they are awesome and somehow work better than your printer, print clear, and are easy to operate IT guy here who had a job with lots of fax based clients (doctors). Faxes are never clear. They all look like shit. The machines are "easy" to operate because grandpa has owned the same mac...
In a 32 bit processor, one base instruction is a single byte. at 64 bytes, exactly, that's 64,000 instructions that can be organized in a multitude of different ways to accomplish a single goal. A function that takes arguments and manipulates them could be no larger than two instructions. A loop that runs an infi...
This happened to a friend of mine when he crossed the border and returned after only an hour. He lived in a Canadian border town, and cigarettes were 1/4 the cost in the US. Of course this seemed highly suspect to the border guards, who promptly dismantled his car to find the drugs they believed he had. They found noth...
Law student here, hope I can provide some insight (note: none of this is intended to be "legal advice." If you have a personal situation involving a warrantless search or seizure, contact an actual attorney). The Fourth Amendment sets forth a general rule, subject to a few, narrow exceptions: Absent a warrant based on ...
Zach, I'm also a fellow aspiring tech journalist, and I admire the fact that you are even writing, as writing can be difficult to do. However, this headline is absolutely bullshit. I was thinking of writing an article about this apparent "universal" hatred of Facebook Messenger, but there are a large number of oversi...
No one does, but Facebook wants to corner the market occupied by Skype/viber/whatsapp. The problem right now is people only see it as a pointless second app to send PM's, which used to work perfectly in the original app. Once enough people have it (critical mass), everyone will love it for the free 'text messaging' a...
I find it sad that this would not take off in western markets. in the US in particular this would be something that maybe one or two test buses would be equipped with and then it would quickly be forgotten as either no one would use it (for the lack of being informed) or it ends up costing to much to replace or retrofi...
Yea, I know... but I'm just not sure how to do it. I'll be happy to edit post and add
Corporate theft as far as I'm concerned. But it's not just what companies like AT&T do to their customers either that I consider corporate theft. I worked for a retailer of theirs, spring mobile, five years ago. I was a sales associate at a mall and they had a bunch of sales contests going on for Black Friday. ...
This whole idea is delusional. "Net Neutrality" is setting the stage for government censorship. Government will HAVE to monitor the network traffic to ensure companies are complying with the regulations. Its only a matter of time before they either 1. spy on that info 2. restrict it. Government ALWAYS suffers from scop...
Eh. At this point I assume everyone who is going to see it, has seen it. Making posts on reddit isn't going to solve anything and it's pretty clear cut they're going to go through with killing Net Neutrality as clear as it is that they're going to allow the Comcast/TWC merger. If they were going to shoot these things d...
It's only been the last decade that things have been deregulated and look where it's gotten us. My home bandwidth is 400 times what it was in 2002. (50mbps vs 128 k bps) My monthly data bill is 1/3 of what it was in 2002 - in real dollars, not adjusting for inflation. (I had ISDN at the time, it was goddam expensiv...
My home bandwidth is 400 times what it was in 2002. (50mbps vs 128kbps) Honestly, it's not at all hard to argue we'd be be doing a lot better than that if things had stayed regulated. 50mbps is way behind the curve. Especially considering how many billions upon billions upon billions (300 billions, I believe) of doll...
Hopefully by then, all that evil technology will stop advancing and even stop working then we can get our jobs back from those damnable steam looms.
I don't know how i feel about this. I believe it comes down to the idea of "self preservation" and what intelligence is. If something had free will (The idea that it could choose to be altruistic or not) means that in some way it would understand the concept of preservation (Self and Others - regardless of form). In a ...
We aren't talking about TODAY robots taking over. Once self driving cars are established, how long before our current transportation system is completely automated? There's your distribution of materials. Production processes change, how hard would it be to completely revamp say, a car factory? To my knowledge those ar...
This is what I thought when I was in the shower. I am not sure if this was what Hawking was thinking when he said that. Assuming we invent an AI that can think better, more efficient and perfect than our human brains, it need not have seventeen arms or phasor guns to spell an end to our race. Let's assume this hypothet...
I understand your point, but the bigger picture is what is being inferred by Hawking and what led to the Morning War in ME. As stated by Hawking in the article, AIs will grow exponentially faster than evolution of humans. There will be a point when they will surpass us, and as our governments have shown over the cour...
The thing is it's not a threat in the way of, "we need to start working to counteract the potential for ai takeover". It's more like, we're continuing to develop AI, and one day this is going to catch up with us whether we like it or not and we need to fully understand what AI can be capable of before super-powerful AI...
According to whom? The human brain. The human brain has evolved to optimize how we can replicate our genes. In that optic, intelligence is of a great benefit when it comes to making sure you survive. Communication is a great tool to work as a group and combine knowledge. There is no obvious link between self-awarenes...
Honestly we don't fight wars over food, we fight wars over ideology. Intelligence has made not made the world more peaceful by any stretch of the imagination. Before Homo Sapien Sapien there was no genocide, no ethnic cleansing, no crusades. You say that we live in a dangerous cruel world, and yet life expectancy co...
I think you have it wrong—we’d be better off if robots did those things. When we say we are afraid of this, it is precisely because a software program shares NONE of those values. If it did, perhaps we could reason with it, or offer it something, or perhaps it would come around to a peaceful way of thinking. To wit, t...
It would be pretty cool to be able to go beyond normal human limits. imagine being able to expand our memories to extreme degrees, lift with the strength of a gorilla, move faster than a cheetah, think like lightning, or have an electronic form of telepathy. instead I have to reach into my pocket for my phone (that...
There is a Sun in our system which energy we aren't capable of use in it's full capacity. The AI wouldn't destroy us because it won't need the space, at most it needs a factory for improves, it won't need a legion of robots because the AI doesn't need more of itself unless we are talking about something like the Geth (...
Adblock+ was never advertised as a method of speeding up your browsing experience. It was advertised as an ad blocker. Of course it takes RAM and CPU to run First the author says it's a bad thing because ABP takes RAM and CPU to run, then they advise that you run a local proxy server to block ads instead. Wha...
Interestingly (HAHAHA), premium is from Latin praemium - "reward, profit derived from booty". Which is from prae- - "before", + emere - "to buy".
I think I understand why you're not imagining it to be impossible to read the code off the chip. The code is not like computer code, made with 1's and 0's and stored in a single spot on a hard drive. It's a physical program, using components to do tasks and communicate with the hardware (digression: there are microco...
If your media center consists of two objects, sure. My parents have 6 different boxes and 8 different remotes, all the cables are a tangled mess and shoved behind a giant piece of furniture, and they have no idea how any of it works. Adding one new cable correctly, without messing anything up, and making it all nice ...
Maybe someone (like the reporter from this article) should ask them. The setup of "People who think EM is bad" versus "People who think EM is good" is pretty contrived. I know the editorial constraints require 1-dimensionalism, but I'm sure there is much more complexity, nuance and self-criticism to the woman who lives...
Connect the dots: vapor trails, EM radiation, alien abductions, etc. There is a certain segment of the population that may have legitimate grievances that manifest themselves in whackjob ways. You can be an asshole about it and totally dismiss/dehumanize them, or you could ask yourself "under what circumstances might I...
There is a certain segment of the population that may have legitimate grievances that manifest themselves in whackjob ways. Might have legitimate grievances of some sort that might be correlated with said whackjob ways. They certainly have grievances (we are sprayed with mind altering drugs is, after all, pretty...